Out of the Air

Out of the Air

... so Ill answer your questions in the order you ask them. No, I dont want ever to fly again. My last pay-hop was two Saturdays ago and I got my discharge papers yesterday. God willing, Ill never again ride anything more dangerous than a velocipede. Im now a respectable American citizen, and for the future Im going to confine my locomotion to the well-known earth. Get that, Spink Sparrel! The earth! In fact.... David Lindsay suddenly looked up from his typewriting. Under his window, Washington Square simmered in the premature heat of an early June day. But he did not even glance in that direction. Instead, his eyes sought the doorway leading from the front room to the back of the apartment. Apparently he was not seeking inspiration; it was as though he had been 4 suddenly jerked out of himself. After an absent second, his eye sank to the page and the brisk clatter of his machine began again. ... after the woman you recommended, Mrs. Whatever-her-name-is, shoveled off a few tons of dust. Its great! Its the key house of New York, isnt it? And when you look right through the Arch straight up Fifth Avenue, you feel as though you owned the whole town. And what an air all this chaste antique New England stuff gives it! Whod ever thought youd turn outyou big rough-neck youto be a collector of antiques? Not that I havent fallen myself for the sailors chest and the butterfly table and the glass lamps. I actually salaam to that sampler. And these furnishings seem especially appropriate when I remember that Jeffrey Lewis lived here once. You dont know how much that adds to the connotation of this place. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 38060
Author: Gillmore, Inez Haynes
Release Date: Nov 19, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English